Mark Klett has been photographing the western landscape for more than twenty years. His books include Third View, Second Sights; Desert Legends; Revealing Territory; and Black Rock Desert, with William Fox. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the Buhl Foundation award. He is Regents Professor of Art at Arizona State University.
San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit is the author of thirteen books about art, landscape, public and collective life, ecology, politics, hope, meandering, reverie, and memory. They include Men Explain Things To Me, The Faraway Nearby; Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster; Storming the Gates of Paradise; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art; and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, for which she received a Guggenheim fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award. She has worked on climate change, Native American land rights, and antinuclear, human rights, and antiwar issues as an activist and journalist. A contributing editor to Harper’s and a frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com, Solnit has made her living as an independent writer since 1988.
Byron Wolfe is a widely exhibited photographer whose work is held in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a recipient of the Santa Fe Prize for Photography and a Guggenheim fellowship. He teaches at California State University in Chico and lives in northern California.
